Seven Puzzles by Lyrian (concept album)

Description: Seven Puzzles by LYRIAN. Medieval Records, 2024. Running time 66 minutes. Seven Puzzles is the fourth full-length album from the progressive rock band Lyrian. There are eight new songs here, each a puzzle (in one sense or another). The concept for the album was to present a series of riddles to a Queen of Gondor, to occupy her mind and keep her from thoughts of murdering her husband. What became of the race of Centaurs? Why did Diogenes go to sea to try to find an honest man? What was the Riddle of the Hydra? Why were the Seven Dwarves condemned to death? How was that great and mysterious tome The Catholicon printed, when and by whom? The answers to these, and many other, questions may be found in these Seven Puzzles. But the answers are hidden within the folds of eight progressive rock songs, replete with Mellotrons, pipes and guitars and, on this album, a preponderance of synthesizers (reflecting the love of electronica of the aforementioned Queen of Gondor). The album is both serious and ludicrous, and is set partly in the world of fairy-tale, and partly in the real, but distant, period before the Renaissance. Track listing:1. The Seven Dwarves on Death Row (7:42)2. Diogenes on the Island of Centaurs (9:26)3. The Last Lament and Riddle of the Hydra (7:58)4. The Elves of Flyte (10:11)5. The Knight and the Dragon (7:54)6. The Game of ‘Logic’ (7:44)7. The Mystery of the Catholicon (6:15)8. The Mechanical Turk (9:24)

Price: 6 GBP

Location: Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire

End Time: 2024-12-27T10:00:39.000Z

Shipping Cost: 3.77 GBP